Mika/Notes/Computer Stuff/Debian Maintenance

I maintain bubblefishymon.

Basic Steps

1. apt-get source bubblefishymon: get the source 2. fix the bugs: 1 Delete in debian/control file: . Homepage: http://www.jnrowe.ukfsn.org/projects/bfm.html And add after Standards-Version: Homepage: http://www.jnrowe.ukfsn.org/projects/bfm.html

2 Updated to Standards-Version: 3.9.1 in debian/control file

3 Fixed black background in WindowMaker. Someone had a patch on github. Downloded the patch and in the bfm folder:

               patch <- (patch file)

4 Fixed FTBFS bug with binutils-gold. It said that I had to specify the library (libX11). Changed 2 times in bfm-0.4.4/Makefile (Mako): GTK_LIBS = -lX11 $(shell gtk-config --libs)

5 Fixed menu as directed by lintian in 2 steps: Instead of Apps/Systems --> Applications/Systems Instead of Applications/Systems --> Applications/Systems/Monitoring When I search for the lintian error messages, I get a page that has a list of packages with the same error plus the suggested solution on top.

6. Fixed Copyright by adding in debian/copyright:

Copyright:

  		 Copyright (C) 1999 Merlin Hughes
 		 Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Johan Walles <d92-jwa@nada.kth.se>

7. Fixed the nonstrip option problem by editing debian/rules (Clint): ifeq (,$(findstring nostrip,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))

	        INSTALL_PROGRAM += -s

STRIP_PROGRAM = strip else STRIP_PROGRAM = true endif

8 Fixed watch accordingly to the suggestion on BTS so as to report the upstream update (though it's not happening now since there's no upstream developer): version=3 http://www.jnrowe.ukfsn.org/projects/bfm.html../_downloads/bfm-(.*)\.tar\.bz2

3. Build package after some fixes: dpkg-buildpackage (-us -uc skips the signing stage): This makes dsc and changes and diff.gz files in the *parent* directory (i.e. /home/mika/).

4. Run lintian on changes to check errors in the directory where .changes files exist: lintian -i -I *changes (if there are multiple changes files in the same folder, specify here.)

5. Test the package by: sudo debi (the change file name)

6. Make (dch -i (change description)) or edit in editor the changelog file in the debian folder. The format is:

bfm (0.6.4-3) unstable; urgency=low

 * (Change description. Make sure to add (Closes: #bugnumber) if the change fixes the bug.

-- Mika Matsuzaki <mika@yukidoke.org>  (Timestamp, automatic by dch)

7. Upload .dsc and .diff.gz somewhere, so that the sponsor can get it.

8. pbuilder can help simulate the problems in sid (problems if using Ubuntu. Just use Debian):

sudo pbuilder create --distribution sid

Bug reports

667112 on gcc command line option -Wl

Removed -Wl from: LDFLAGS = -shared -Wl

-Wl means "pass the following option to the linker"